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Greenbudgetnews25 GREEN BUDGET NEWS NO. 25 – 1/2010 EUROPEAN NEWSLETTER ON ENVIRONMENTAL FISCAL REFORM Founders: www.foes.de www.eeb.org www.ecocouncil.dk www.levego.hu/ www.oegut.at Chief editor: Dr. Anselm Görres Editors: Kai Schlegelmilch, Sebastian Schmidt, Saija Kononen, Jacqueline Cottrell Contents Quotations of December 3 1. EDITORIAL ............................................................................................................... 4 2. GREEN BUDGET REFORM IN EUROPEAN MEMBER STATES ................................. 5 Paradoxical Privileges in Traffic Sector: German railway provider hopes for a change 5 Kai Schlegelmilch – The Eco-Tax Man or the "Öko-Steuermann" 6 Dutch first in Europe to adopt green tax for cars 9 Ireland adopts carbon tax for non-ETS sectors 9 Ireland: Carbon tax backed to lead to employment opportunities 10 Comment on Irish CO 2 Tax: Carbon tax can promote green economy 10 French minister offers CO 2 tax breaks for hauliers 12 France: Ségolène Royal Tries to Score by Opposing Carbon Tax 12 Austria’s Finance Minister Mitterlehner: New Eco-tax will come 13 French carbon tax deemed illegal 13 Taxes on Unhealthy Food – Denmark Takes Action against “Muffin Tops” 13 3. GREEN BUDGET REFORM ON EU-LEVEL ............................................................. 14 Carbon Credit fraud causes more than 5 billion euros damage for European Taxpayer 14 Slovenia wins seat of energy regulators’ agency 15 Commission launches consultation on EU 2020: a new strategy to make the EU a smarter, greener social market 16 EU Environment Council conclusions on eco-efficient economy challenge Βarroso to reform Lisbon strategy 18 Think-tank leader: EU’s 2020 strategy ‘too short-termist’ 18 4. GREEN BUDGET REFORM WORLDWIDE ............................................................... 19 GREEN BUDGET NEWS NO. 25 PAGE 2 OF 45 Japan’s Democrats opened the Policy Window for Market Based Instruments? 19 Japan industry unites against carbon tax 20 Indonesia plans carbon tax, geothermal push 21 China: Economists: tax carbon to cut emissions 22 G20 wastes hundreds of billions on perverse fossil fuel subsidies, says global coalition 23 5. COPENHAGEN SPECIAL ......................................................................................... 23 Turn climate action into Apollo mission, says leading MEP 23 Obama’s Climate Policy: on Copenhagen, Emission Target and What has happened so far 24 Ahead of EU summit, Soros unveils climate finance plan 27 Copenhagen or Bust The time is now for an international deal on climate change 28 Brown and Sarkozy Proposing a New Tax to Finance Climate Change 29 France, Africa Want to Tax Banks to Finance Climate 30 NASA Climate Expert wants Copenhagen to Fail and Calls for Carbon Tax 31 “Enfants terribles” in Copenhagen 31 Russia and the Copenhagen Talks – a Sleeping Bear 32 Finance sector makes voice heard at UN climate talks 33 Opinion: If Copenhagen fails, should the EU adopt a CO 2 border tax? 34 OPEC fighting against adoption of carbon tax in Copenhagen 36 The Copenhagen Accord explained 36 Copenhagen Accord – Reactions 37 Sweden calls the summit a „disaster“ 39 6. LINKS AND PUBLICATIONS .................................................................................... 39 30th November 2009, What taxation for a low carbon economy? 39 Taxation trends in the European Union 2009 edition 40 Scorecards for Best and Worst Environmental Policies 40 Coolproducts.eu 41 The Case for Green Fiscal Reform - Final Report of the UK Green Fiscal Commission 41 Carbon Tax – a Forgotten Climate Policy Tool? 41 International Fuel Prices 42 Deutsche Bank on Climate taxes 42 List of Environmental Taxes in Finland 42 Carbon Tax Center 42 7. EVENTS ................................................................................................................... 43 GBG Conference, Annual General Meeting and Adam Smith Price 2010 23 th /24 th April 2010, Berlin 43 GREEN BUDGET NEWS NO. 25 PAGE 3 OF 45 GBE Annual Conference 2010 43 AGRION Business Network for Energy Cleantech, sustainable Development 14 th January, Frankfurt 44 Présentation de l'étude "Une Union sans cesse moins carbonée ? vers une meilleure fiscalité européenne contre le changement climatique 44 The 11th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation 3 - 5 November 2010, Bangkok, THAILAND 44 8. IMPRINT ................................................................................................................. 45 Best wishes from the founders and the editors! 45 Green Budget Germany’s Team of Editors 45 Quotations of December "The world was watching Copenhagen. The world has been sorely disappointed," Hubert Weiger, head of Germany's association for environment and nature protection, Bund, December 2010 "We have sold off our children's future and compromised that of millions of citizens,” Nicolas Hulot, French ecologist, the Journal du Dimanche, December 2010 GREEN BUDGET NEWS NO. 25 PAGE 4 OF 45 that a common declaration will be possible in the future. We keep on working on this. 1. EDITORIAL Green Budget Europe (GBE) has been active as well. Together with EEB, GBE organised a Dear readers and friends of Green Budget seminar on environmental fiscal reform in Germany, post-Lisbon EU . The seminar was held in Ma- Last December was not only about Christmas drid in November. This meeting followed up decorations and shopping, it was the month of on GBE’s declared aim of organizing events the Copenhagen climate conference – or prior to each EU Presidency. Speakers in- “Hopenhagen” as many said before, now they cluded GBE Steering Committee member rather call it “Flopenhagen”. The conference Yannis Paleocrassas and Jacqueline Cottrell has been keeping us busy here. One fruit of from the GBE office. Many additional GBE our work you will see when you just keep members also made contributions, including reading. Green Budget Germany proudly pre- John Hontelez and Aldo Ravazzi Douvan. A sents: a “Copenhagen Special” ! It is the fifth further event in Spain may be organized early chapter in this issue, giving some basic in- next year. formation but also discussing topics that have Of course GBE has been present on the 10 th not been all over media. You will get a good GCET in Lisbon in September. Vice- overview about the different viewpoints, Spokesman Kai Schlegelmilch gave several plans and reactions. presentations. Several Steering Committee There are also other ways we have been active members, e.g. Aldo Ravazzi Douvan, Paul regarding the conference. We sent informa- Ekins, and András Lukács gave presentations tion about us and Environmental Fiscal Re- and contributed to panel discussions. GBE form to be available for the visitors of the was thus substantially present and demon- conference. Prior to the conference we also strated that it is a major institution oriented sent letters to the world leaders to remind towards policy action, though also providing them about green taxes and green fiscal re- valuable scientific insights. form as an effective way to implement the Unfortunately the GCET conference website possible outcomes of the summit. GBG was was taken offline, including all papers etc., delighted to hear the UK Prime Minister and the day after the conference, so that almost no the French President proposing green taxes to information remains available. However, sin- finance help to developing countries. The gle papers and presentations can be requested global financial transaction tax, the so called from the authors. Tobin tax, was not the only thing those men were talking about (see Chapter 5). One of our activities has been taking part in EU consultations. In November we contrib- For us in GBG this December also stood for uted to the EU consultation about the new taking steps for getting a wider basis to sup- Common Fishery Policy and in January we port our aims. GBG invited the representatives will take part in the consultations about the of German trade unions and many environ- EU 2020 strategy, the successor of the Lisbon mental organisations to discuss Environmental strategy. In this issue you will find a press re- Fiscal Reform . The debate was intense and it lease of EEB, one of our European partners, pointed out the differences in the viewpoints and an interesting interview on this topic. At but also showed us that the groups are inter- this point we would like to refer to EurActive ested in cooperation and there is strong faith (http://www.euractiv.com/en/HomePage ), a website GREEN BUDGET NEWS NO. 25 PAGE 5 OF 45 reporting about and analysing the happenings 2. GREEN BUDGET REFORM IN in the EU from a community perspective. We warmly recommend! EUROPEAN MEMBER STATES The developments related to Environmental Fiscal Reform in other countries has always Paradoxical Privileges in Traffic Sector: been interesting for us. You can read about German railway provider them in this newsletter, both in EU member hopes for a change states and worldwide. Ireland has decided to [Saija Kononen, Green Budget Germany, introduce a carbon tax, France had already Wednesday, 2 December 2009] Air traffic still decided to do it, when just before the end of enjoys tax privileges in Europe, at the same 2009, the French Constitutional Court skipped time, in many coutries, railway traffic is dis- this plan and dismissed particularly the many advantaged. German national railway com- exemptions. In Denmark the government pany Deutsche Bahn (DB) hopes the new fed- wants to start taxing unhealthy food – we say: eral government to see the paradox. Equal why not tax
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